The lying game
Mack joins Pants On Fire panel
Lee Mack is to be a regular on the first BBC panel show to be fronted by Angus Deayton since his career was hit by a string of tabloid revelations.Mack, who previously presented They Think It’s All Over, will be one of the captains on the new show, tentatively called Pants On Fire.
The other celebrity team, which will have to try to tell fact from fiction, will be Peep Show’s David Mitchell
Chortle reported on the pilot edition, which had Alan Carr in place of Lee Mack, back in January 2006, and it is finally making it to air.
The shows will be recorded in front of a studio audience from next month, with guests including Franke Boyle, Eamonn Holmes and EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy.
Before the pilot show, producers said: ‘The teams will fight it out to see who can talk the most convincing claptrap. The show is about the ability to talk funny and convincing nonsense.’
Published: 20 Feb 2007
